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AI and the Metaverse: Transforming Education, Professional Development, and Global Impact with Hoss Zaouali

August 23

About Guest:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hosszawali/

Hoss Zawali's journey from a turbulent childhood to becoming a leading figure in global education is a testament to the transformative power of learning. Growing up between North Africa and France, he faced significant challenges, including language barriers and violence, which led to an identity crisis. However, education became his path to self-expression and growth.

After earning engineering and business degrees in France and an MBA in International Development in Canada, Hoss dedicated himself to using education as a tool to combat ignorance and violence. His work with the French government in Morocco, investigating the roots of violence among street children, reinforced his belief that education can change lives.

In 2005, he founded Tech-AdaptiKa, a social enterprise that provides free education to children in developing countries. Under his leadership, the organization has expanded globally, launching innovative projects like a digital education solution in Somalia and a Metaverse for universal education.

Hoss is also deeply involved in professional development, having launched virtual campuses and incubators worldwide. His work is particularly focused on Africa, where he sees online education as a means to rapidly advance learning, bypassing traditional steps.

In addition to his professional achievements, Hoss has been a course facilitator at the Stanford LEAD program, where he helped develop a global community of executive learners. He also created the Me2We conference at Stanford GSB to strengthen the connections among online learners.

Hoss's commitment to education is driven by his personal history and his belief in its power to foster empathy, mutual support, and a brighter future for all.

#SimplenightAIPresents #AI #Metaverse #EducationTransformation #ProfessionalDevelopment #GlobalImpact #HossZaouali #FutureOfLearning #TechInnovation #EdTech #AIinEducation

Cultivating Talent: Education and Skill Development for the Startup Ecosystem with McKevin Ayaba

August 22

About Guest:

McKevin Ayaba, Founder and CEO, Setup A Startup

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mckevin-ayaba-89853220/

McKevin Ayaba is a globally recognized leader in innovation strategy, startup investmentreadiness, and ecosystem building. As Founder and CEO of Setup A Startup, he empowersentrepreneurs across Africa and beyond.

McKevin believes in entrepreneurship's power to transform lives and communities. Hechampions diversity and inclusion in the startup ecosystem, inspiring entrepreneurs globally. Hiswork consistently earns him recognition as one of Africa's most influential leaders in innovationand economic development.

#GSDPresents #StartupEcosystem #TalentCultivation #EducationAndSkills #SkillDevelopment #Entrepreneurship #MckevinAyaba #StartupGrowth #Innovation #FutureOfWork

Navigating the Startup Landscape in Web3 with Aly Madhavji

August 16

About Guest:

Aly Madhavji is the Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund which invests in and venture builds top-tier startups. He is a Limited Partner at Loyal VC and Draper Goren Holm. Aly consults organizations on emerging technologies such as INSEAD and the UN on solutions to help alleviate poverty. He served as Senior Blockchain Fellow at INSEAD and was recognized as a “Blockchain 100” Global Leader.

He is an internationally acclaimed author, publishing three books, and a columnist for leading Web3 publications. Aly served as a board member of Soluna Holdings (NASDAQ: SLNH) and on various advisory boards including the University of Toronto’s Governing Council, which manages a $2.5B budget. He is a mentor with Orbit Startups, an elite accelerator program operated by the venture fund SOSV with $1.5B+ AUM and the Mobile Only Accelerator (MOX).

Aly holds a Master of Global Affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar from Tsinghua University (清华大学), a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD (Singapore and France), and a Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Toronto.

#GSDPresents #Web3Startups #AlyMadhavji #StartupSuccess #TechInnovation #Blockchain #Web3Technology #Entrepreneurship #FutureOfBusines

Sustainable Transitioning—Is It a Marketing Gimmick or Does It Make Business Sense? with Stanley Anyetei

August 13

About Guest:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanley-anyetei-3993a113/

Stanley has over 15 years of investment and sustainable banking experience across various countries. Stanley has spent his career advising, structuring, and investing in public/private companies for acquisitions and growth-related activities across multiple industries in Africa, Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia. As an investment manager at Triodos Investment Manager, Stanley invested in sustainable innovation across the African continent, mainly in Renewable Energy, Financial Institutions, Sustainable Tech, and Agriculture. Before that, Stanley was the Head of Investment at PYMWYMIC, where he managed the global impact investments of the community of family offices. Before that, Stanley was a senior investment banker at Investec Bank Limited, where he was involved in capital markets transactions of over US$200mln, ranging from M&A, capital structuring, and balance sheet optimization. Stanley also sits on the board of Signify Foundation (ex-Phillips Lighting) and the advisory committees of various companies and Private Equity Funds involved in the sustainability sector.

Stanley is the CSR lecturer at TIAS Business School (Tilburg University) in the Netherlands, and I am a visiting lecturer at Maastricht University. He also mentors numerous SMEs in financial sustainability, scaling, and market assessment.

#GSDPresents #Sustainability #BusinessSense #GreenTransition #MarketingOrReality #EcoFriendly #SustainableBusiness #StanleyAnyetei #Innovation #FutureOfBusiness

Navigating Due Diligence in Tech Startups: Technology Protection and Foreign Investment with Donald Pearce

August 6

About Guest:

Donald Pearce is a Senior Advisor at Torres Trade Advisory, and a retired Special Agent from the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security. Don is a subject matter expert in strategic trade control policy, transnational criminal investigations, and national security issues, using his 30-plus years in government to keep companies compliant and competitive. Leading the Global Risk, Monitorship, and Investigations practice, he provides real-world solutions and guidance to companies and governments on security and compliance strategies, due diligence research, and successfully implementing and navigating multilateral trade controls.

#GSDPresents #DueDiligence #TechStartups #TechnologyProtection #ForeignInvestment #DonaldPearce #StartupSuccess #InvestmentStrategies #TechInnovation #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneurship #TechTalks

Startup Science: Empowering Founders with Tools and Knowledge with Gregory Shepard

August 07

About Guest:

Gregory Shepard has built and sold 12 liquidity events in BioTech, TransitTech, AdTech, and MarTech. He is a Forbes Book Author/Contributor and has been featured or quoted in publications like Fortune, Entrepreneur, The New York Observer, The DEAL, and Thrive Global. A recipient of four private equity awards for transactions between $250M to $1B, Greg is a FORBES Podcast host, appeared on TV, Radio, and hundreds of popular Podcasts, and has been featured as a TEDX and Keynote speaker at multiple ivy league universities and conferences worldwide.

The founder of the BCP Fund a global investment syndicate that focuses on seed technology businesses and creator of StartupScience.OI a free platform built to help founders succeed was developed to empower entrepreneurs and increase the overall startup success rate.

#StartupScience #EmpoweringFounders #TechInnovation #FoundersTools #KnowledgeIsPower #StartupGrowth #Entrepreneurship #TechEntrepreneurs #StartupSuccess #BusinessGrowth

AI and Producer Margins with Matt Sauer

July 25

Matt Sauer, Chairman, Everstar Asset Management

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Having spent over 35 years evaluating and pricing assets, Matthew has been keenly aware that valuation is always based on data gathering, assimilation and analysis. Artificial Intelligence will fundamentally change the available data, the traditional investment process and the outcomes associated with investing. The dispersion of results will become larger at a faster pace, all because of the power of Artificial Intelligence.

Beginning with a career as a portfolio manager at three well known investment firms; Oak Value, Ariel, and Lateef, he has visited hundreds of C-Suites and has had numerous conversations with industry leaders, investment bankers and analysts. Different industries will be affected by Artificial Intelligence based on their own idiosyncratic risks and rewards of disruptive technologies, yet it is the combination of the knowledge of traditional business models and the understanding of the rate and magnitude of change occurring that allows for insightful analysis and valuation work.

While at Oak Value, Matthew was named by Morningstar Research as an All-Star Manager and an Ultimate Stock Picker. Matthew has been a General Partner in Lateef Capital LLP and Everstar Capital Fund LLC. The latter has significantly outperformed all benchmarks over the past 4 years.

#AIFinance #ProducerMargins #artificialintelligence #inspirational #aiinnovation #techtalks #RundayAIPresents #MattSauer #EverstarAssetManagement #finance #producer #ai #interview

About Guest:

Ruchi Dana, Partner, Dana Group

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About Ruchi:

Dr Ruchi Dana is a qualified medical practitioner, who has transitioned successfully into a seasoned entrepreneur and Business Leader. Ruchi did her MD from AMU and her full-time MBA from Stanford University. Ruchi also received her PMP Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation from Stanford University. Ruchi is a frequent speaker at various industry conferences and sits on multiple Corporate, startup, non-profits and University boards including Dana Group of Companies, Dubai, Duluth Medical Technologies Inc, USA, NGO Aaroogya Foundation, India and the California State University, Chico Cybersecurity Advisory Board. Ruchi has been recognized by Forbes Middle East as the “Next Generation Business Leader, Arab World” for 3 consecutive years 2017, 2018 and 2019. She has also been recognized by Campden Wealth as the “Women to Watch” in September’18 issue, and was conferred with the Yuva Ratna Award, 2018. Ruchi has also been recognized as “Top 75 Family Business Leaders” 2019 by Campden Research (UK).

Recently, Dr Ruchi was featured on the Forbes ME Top Power Businesswomen 2020. Since joining Dana Group, Ruchi has been instrumental in starting the Value-added

Steel manufacturing division in 2008, Lubricants and Grease manufacturing division and also Retail and Real estate divisions for Dana Group in 2014. She is also actively involved in strategic planning for Dana Group and manages the family office investments. Ruchi has also worked with Golden Seeds, an investment firm in New York and New Silk Route Growth Capital, a PE firm in Dubai, she has mainly focused on healthcare related investments at both these firms.

#SimplenightAI #DeepTech #HealthcareInvestments #Techbio #FamilyOffices #RuchiDana #InvestmentOpportunities #AIInnovation #FutureOfHealthcare

Generative AI for Sales and Support with Ron Lewin

July 18

About Guest:

Ron Lewin, Managing Director, GSD Ventures Fund

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About Ron:

Ron Lewin, born in Toronto in 1969, is the founder of TerraLink, and has led the company since its founding in 1989 to become a successful and well-regarded technology and engineering services firm, serving global multinationals in the US, Canada, Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, the UAE, Israel and other markets. Under Ron’s leadership, TerraLink grew to more than 700 employees in six offices, with more than US$60 million in revenue, finally selling the majority stake to an investment group in 2021 and fully exiting in 2023.

A recognized expert on enterprise digital transformation, Ron is the Chairman of the Committee for Innovation and Technology at the American Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Committee for IT and Innovation in the Canada-Eurasia Chamber of Commerce. He also serves on the Board of Directors of both organizations and has contributed to many studies and reports on innovation, spoken at events including a recent panel on start-ups in Silicon Valley, and has been interviewed and quoted by well-known publications and news programs including CNN, the BBC, Forbes, BusinessWeek and The New York Times.

As a serial entrepreneur, Ron has invested in other global technology ventures, including RTR Drone, a company that specializes in R&D on ultra-safe ultra-long endurance drones.

#RundayAI #GenerativeAI #Sales #CustomerSupport #AIInnovation #TechTalk #RonLewin #AIinBusiness #FutureOfSales #CustomerServiceRevolution

The Future of AI & What It Means To Your Business with Scott Duffy

June 20, Thursday

About Guest:

Scott Duffy, Founder, AI Maverickshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/scottduffymedia/

A master at making AI accessible, Scott Duffy is a sought-after keynote speaker renowned for his dynamic approach to AI and business strategy. His presentations demystify AI, eliminate overwhelm, and infuse fun into the narrative, leaving audiences with a comprehensive and inspired outlook on building great companies with AI as a cornerstone for growth.

Scott Duffy is an entrepreneur and keynote speaker. He is the Founder of AI Mavericks. Prior to AI Mavericks, Scott founded Smart Charter, which was acquired by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. He held leadership roles at FOXSports.com, NBC Internet, & CBS Sportsline.

Scott started his career working for Tony Robbins. He is listed as a “Top 10 Speaker” by Entrepreneur.com, spoken at the NYSE and provided commentary in numerous media outlets including CNBC, FOX News, and CBS Radio. He has served as Special Project Editor at Inc, VIP Contributor at Entrepreneur, and Co-Host of a Top Podcast for Microsoft.

#FutureOfAI #AIInBusiness #ScottDuffy #AIInnovation #BusinessTech #AIImpact #TechLeadership #AIRevolution #BusinessGrowth #FutureOfTech